Examples of 'eke out' in a sentence
Meaning of "eke out"
The phrase 'eke out' means to make something, usually a resource or supply, last longer or be sufficient, especially when it is in short supply. It involves using what is available sparingly or with great effort to sustain or supplement one's needs or desires
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- To supplement.
- To obtain with difficulty or effort.
How to use "eke out" in a sentence
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Can eke out a modicum of witchly power.
I have to slog hard to eke out a living.
Others eke out a living on the street.
Which will allow you to eke out a victory.
I eke out an existence by collecting scrap metal.
Somehow they eke out a living together.
Economic hardships make it difficult to eke out a living.
I was forced to eke out a pathetic living doing these conventions.
The artist was barely able to eke out a living.
I can not eke out a living for myself.
If you could stretch your meagre vocabulary to eke out a definition.
Hoping to eke out an honest existence.
Modern education can help you only to eke out a livelihood.
They eke out a pitiful existence in a harsh environment.
It is not easy to eke out a living.
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Trying to eke out more time to finish my novel.
They are struggling to eke out their living.
They eke out their livelihood by working as labour.
We will somehow eke out a living.
They eke out a desperate existence.
According to eke out earlier.
I eke out a meager living teaching chess to incompetent zombies.
And in order to eke out the last ounce of.
They were poor and had to work hard to eke out a living.
We should eke out everything.
A lawyer has to accept whatever small moral victories he can eke out.
Some owners try to eke out every last dollar.
He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living.
Instead we prefer to eke out a poor and wretched existence.
And a little money too to help you eke out your pay.
Or if you can eke out another few minutes of battery life.
That if one is not well where he is he tries to eke out a living elsewhere.
She and her husband eke out a living by providing services to tourists.
Increasingly erratic rainfall is making it more difficult to eke out a living from agriculture.
Those who can not leave eke out a precarious existence in makeshift camps.
I eke out an existence by collecting scrap metal all died during the war.
Amazing how folks can eke out a living here.
They managed to eke out a minority victory that resolves none of the key issues.
Many more young people are struggling to eke out a living in the informal economy.
I hear them eke out their last breath long before the last cut.
Black songwriters had mostly limited horizons and could only eke out a living.
The three siblings try to eke out a living by doing odd jobs.
A comfort zone is a zone where you do something which allows you to eke out a living.
And fisherfolk would eke out their living from her bounties.
He tells his competitors exactly how he modifies his aircraft to eke out better performance.
You can also eke out some storage space behind the door.
We must not have a situation in which some dominate while others eke out a precarious existence.
But I eke out a living as a small civil servant in the Brazilian embassy in Paris.
It generally make every effort to eke out your battery life for a little longer.
Another had her house burned down just when she was starting to eke out a living.
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Can eke out a modicum of witchly power
I have to slog hard to eke out a living
Others eke out a living on the street
